TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. Bept. 3S 1944
RACE UNCHANGED
AS DETROIT AND
Tigers Retain One-Game
ANGELS COP TWO
FROM BEAVERS TO
APPROACH FINALS
By United Press
The San Francisco Seals were
safely into the finals of the Pa
cific coast league governor's cup
playoffs today, sinking Oakland
twice 9-7 and 2-0 yesterday to
nab a 4-1 series win, while the
Lead in Bitter Flag Battle Angeles Angels were
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111 1 to take a 3-2 lead
Clashes This Week Expected
To Thin College Contenders
By Carl Lundqulst
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Sept. 25 (U.R) The road to national football
glory was congested with contenders today, but the traffic was
expected to thin out by next Saturday when some of. the top
gridiron machines will be involved in head-on collisions.
On the basis of their play toi "
date, me standout teams appear
ed to be Cornell, Colgate and '
Pittsburgh In the east; Duke,
Kentucky, Florida, Virginia and
Yanks Fall Behind
New York, Sept. 25 (U.R)
The final week of the 1944 Ma
jor league basebnll season open
ed today with Detroit and St.
Louis embroiled In a last-ditch
struggle for the American league
pennant only one game separat
ing them.
With one of the bitterest fights
In the loop's history, assured, the
leading Tigers were favored to
win their first flag since 1940
because of the fortunes of sched
ule making. Detroit winds up Its
season with three games with
the seventh place Philadelphia
Athletics and four with last place
Washington. St. Louis must play
Clcmson In the south; Illinois,
Northwestern, Great Lakes Na
val, and Michigan, In the mid
west; Rice, Tulsa, Texas Christ
ian and Texas A 8c M in the
southwest; the Second Air Force
Los Angeles needs only one Superbombers and navy-power-
more win tonight or Tuesday to
qualify for the finals, beginning
Wednesday night In San Fran
cisco. If the Angels win, the two
teams will play three games at
Seals stadium, then move to Los
Angeles for a Sunday double-
header. Should the Beavers pull
through, the entire series will
be held in San Francisco.
Los Angeles, regular season
pennant winner, hit its stride In
the opener, lacing Ad Llska,
Clarence Federmeyer and
George Windsor for 20 hits. In
cluding two homers by Ted Nor
bert and one by Cece Garrlott.
George Cornelias kept nine Port
land blows well scattered.
Ray Prim cut the Beavers off
ed Colorado college in the Rocky
mountain area and . California
and Washington on the Pacific
coast.
Yet to be reckoned with are
such potential power plants as
Navy, Army, Notre Dame, Penn
sylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio State,
Georgia, Georgia Tech, Texas,
and Dartmouth which get their
first airings Saturday.
If speed is to be a requisite In
GREEN BAY HPS
BEARS BY 42-28
By United Press
The Green Bay Packers, fa
vored by many to be the class
of the National Football league
this year, scored their second
triumph of the season Sunday
with a 42-28 triumph over the
champion Chicago Bears in one
of the two games scheduled for
play-for-pay fans.
In the other the Cleveland
Rams came back after a year's
layoff to win a see-saw battle
from the merged Pittsburgh
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the race fo? national honors, it Steelers-Chlcago Cardinals, 30-
may be hard to stop Illinois 28, In the season's opener for
with its track team backfield. poth elevens.
three affalnst the fourth SDOt I
Boston Red Sox and four against : with three hits In the abbreviate
the third place New York Van-1 ed nightcap, while his team
kees, I mates were collecting 14 more
The magic figure at this stage I p 1, n a,nd Do"
of the campaign Is seven. Any Pu,lford' " p , Rf se, ' s'an?med
combination of seven Detroit . out circuit clout with the bases
victories or seven St. Louis
losses gives the Tigers the bunt
ing. For New York, who drop
ped four and a half games off
the pace in losing to Cleveland
yesterday, any combination of
four sends them home talking
about next year.
The Tigers maintained their
lead yesterday when Southpaw
Hal Newhouscr accounted for his
27th win of the year with a 9-9
job against Boston.
St. Louis stayed on Detroit's
heels by scoring three runs in
the last half of the ninth Inning
after two were out to beat the
Athletics 3-2.
The Yankees all but bowed
out against the four hit pitching
of Veteran Mel Harder who beat
the 1943 champions, 4-1. The
Indians shelled Hank Borowy
for four runs on four hits and
three walks In the fifth.
Cards Bet Mark
In the American league's only
doublcheader the Chicago White
Sox etlmlnLtet1 any mathemati
cal possibility of the Washington
Senators escaping the cellar by
wlnnlg twice, 9-3 and 2-0.
In the Notional league the St.
Louis Cardinals set a record by
becoming the first senior circuit
team in history to win 100 or
more games for three consecu
tive seasons by taking two one
run decisions from the Philadel
phia Phillies, 4-3 and 1-0.
Pittsburgh and New York
split. The Giants won the first.
5-4, and the Bucs took the 10
innlng nightcap 3 2.
Chicago and Brooklyn dlvld
ed, the Dodgers walking away
with 10-3 margin In the first
game and the Cubs gaining a
4-3 edge In the finale.
Cincinnati won two from the
Boston Braves, 2-1 and 1-0.
loaded.
LInescores:
First games
Oakland 7
San Francisco 9
Salvo and Raimondi;
and Ogrodowskl.
14
11 1
13 3
Seats
20
10
Los Angeles .,
Portland
Horton, Cornelias (1) and Sar
nl, Fernandes (5); Llska, Feder
meyer (5), Wlndson (5) and
Adams, Cook (6).
Second games
Oakland 0 8 1
San Francisco 2 4 0
Hayes and Raimondi; Harrell
and Sprlnz.
Operating with cinder track ef
ficiency the Illlnl defeated a
good Indiana team 26 to 18 In
their Big Ten opener, but may
be slowed down a little when
they go against Great Lakes in
the midwest's top game Satur
day. The Bluejackets showed
plenty of scoring proficiency In
In losing their first game of
the season and their first since
1939 at Green Bay, Wis., the
Bears staged a thrilling last-half
fight that brought them to a
28-28 tie in the fourth quarter,
but the Packers exploded with
two touchdowns In the last four
minutes to clinch the game. The
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untied In n43, by 27 to 18.
Notre Dame, not expected to
attain its 1943 fame, opens
against Pittsburgh, which show
ed offensive class in beating
West Virginia 26 to 13. Army
meets the Tar Heels of North
Carolina who dropped a 7 to 0
decision to Wake Forest, while
Navy opposes the North Carolina
Pre-Flight Cloudbusters, expect
ed to be a standout service team.
On the Pacific coast, Califor
nia's strong Bears oppose UCLA,
Southern California meets Col
lege of Pacific and Washington
takes on Whitman.
first, and by Fullback Ted
Fritsch on a 45 yard return of
an intercepted pass.
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SOUTHWEST TITLE
. 42 TO 7
By United Press
The Los Angeles Mustangs
took over second place behind
me undefeated Hollywood Rang
ers In American professional
football league play yesterday,
overpowering the Los Angeles
Wildcats 20-7 before 5,000 at
Gllmore stadium.
In the north, the Oakland
Hornets suffered their second
beating In three days, losing to
the Portland Rockets 39-0 In the
T.n Anffnlc Scnf ?s (11 PI 1 waKe of a 42-7 defeat bv the
Sgt. Frankie Parker went back Seatt, Bombers Friday night,
to soldiering today, carryingl Half-back Jimmy Caine of the
with him the men s singles hon-1 Portland Bombers put on a one
ors for the Pacific southwest ten-, mBn how, catching four touch
nls tournament after "sweating I dowr passes and snagging an
out" a 6 4 8-8, 8-6 victory over I Oakland fumble behind the
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try and state government! of
Oregon and Washington to con
sider forms of establishing safer
working conditions, investiga
tion into the cause of accidents
In the northwest lumber Indus
try was recommended.
Estimated population of Nova
Scotia In 1807 was 65,000.
A postwar machine which will insure better
fruit and better citrus tree production has been
produced by Food Machinery Corporation.
Using a powerful motor and 10 airplane pro
pellers, the speed sprayer throws a stream of germ
and insect-killing liquid into the orchards to
drive the pests away. George Daugherty, man
ager of the Orlando, Fla., division of FMC, and
inventor of the machine, is shown here driving
the tractor and operating the sprayer in the 160
acre orange grove of 1 Rancho Grande, Azusa,
California-
ONLY 9,600 IDLE
AS FOUR MAJOR
STRIKES SETTLED
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Havre de Grace .
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry iH
J. C. Atkins of Hollywood
Tribett, signalman, 1c of the ! spent several days here recently
Wrestling fans will witness a
double main event In the arm
ory next Thursday night, with
both matches slated for an hour's
straight wrestling time or the
best two out of three falis.
In the climax bout of the eve
ning the "Gray Mask," who de
feated Jack Kaiser last week.
will face Paayo Katonen, the with a 8.4, 6 3 trlurnpn ovcr
Bill Talbert at the Los Angeles
Tennis club.
Parker's steadiness, which won
him the national men's singles
honors over Talbert at Forrest
Hills, N. Y., two weeks ago,
again brought him victory.
Three-time national women's
singles winner, Pauline Betz,
easily pocketed the women's ti-
goal for a fifth score, before a
hometown crowd of 5,000.
big Finnish mntman In the low'
er hnlf of the twin main struggle,
Kaiser coast light-heavy cham
pion, will tangle with Harold Da
vidson. Pat O'Dowdy and Tex Porter
will collide in the thrce-riund
opener,
PEP, WRIGHT CLASH
FOR DIADEM FRIDAY
New York, Sept. 25 U.R)
Willie Pep defends his feather
weight title Ncw York version)
against cx-champlon Chalky
Wright at Madison Square Gar
den Friday night In the feature
bout on this week's nntlonal box
ing schedule. Pep took the crown
from Wright In November, 1942.
Another banner brawl brings
together middlewclghts Jake La
motta and Gcorgle Kochan at
Detroit Friday night.
WEINTRAUB CHASTISED
New York. Sept. 25 U.PJ
Manager Mel Ott of the New
York Giants said today that he!
had suspended hard-hitting first
baseman Phil Welntraub for the
balance of the season because of
"Indifferent playing."
One out of evety three deaths
from tubcrruloais occurs In
cities of 100 000 or more pnpu
latlon. according to the U. S
public health service.
Margaret E Osborne. San Fran
cisco, whom she also defeated
at Forrest Hills.
Parker and Klmbrell, Univer
sity of Southern California na
val trainee defeated Talbert and
Francisco (Pancho) Segura, Ecua
dor's two-hand drive expert. In
the men's doubles, 7-5, 0-6. 6-2.
Miss Osborne and Louise
Brough, Beverly Hills, Cal., USC
co-ed, downed Miss Betz and
women's doubles title.
Standings W
Hollywood ... . 4
L. A. Mustangs ..2
Seattle 2
Portland . 2
San Francisco ..l
San Diego 1
L. A. Wildcats ....0
Oakland . 0
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high's Black Tornado football
team has blossomed forth as an
author.
In the September Issue of the
Athletic Journal, which circu
lates nationally to high school
and college coaches appears an
article written by Simpson titled
"The Y Formation With an Un
balanced Line."
The piece, Illustrated with dia
grams exp:ains the system used
by Simpson at Ashland nigh lust
season.
American
W. L. Pet.
Detroit 84 63 .571
St. Louis 83 64 .565
New York 79 67 .541
! Boston 74 73 .503
Cleveland 70 77 .476
Chicago 69 77 .473
Philadelphia 67 80 .456
Washington 61 86 .415
National
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 101 48 .687
Pittsburgh 87 59 .596
Cincinnati 84 62 .575
Chlcngo 70 75 .483
I'ew York 64 82 .438
Boston 60 88 .411
, Brooklyn 60 87 .408
Philadelphia 68 87 .400
USNR, spent September 21 vis
iting Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hard
ing, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe are
visiting friends in Stockton. Miss
Wanda is taking care of the
store and post office in the ab
sence of her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bowers
have gone to San Francisco on
business.
Raymond Mulllns has return
ed home after spending several
weeks in San Francisco visiting
relatives.
Mrs. Carrie Harding visited
as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Shipp and family. j
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Allen of ,
Glendale, Calif., are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Allen. I
Mr. and Mr. Robert E. Cota
of Van Nuys, Calif., are guests'
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Abbott. J
By United Press
Settlement of four of the na
tion's major strikes today re
duced to 9600 the number of
workers Idle because of strikes,
but at Gadsden, Ala., a walkout
of 30 bricklayers at the Repub
lic Steel Corp. plant threatened : Mrs. Francis Ash of Trail on '
to force an additional 3500 work-j September 11.
ers 'n'o idleness. I Mrs. Nina Waldo has gone to!
" a " . : W"'RS "i Glendale, Calif., to visit rela
Carnee e-Illinols Steel Co.. 75
chippers who have been on strike M " Ware wilson and dauah.
a week returned to work today ; Lorceni have gone , Los
Angeles where Loreen has en
tered school.
SAFETY MEETING SET
Portland, Ore., Sept. 25 (U.R)
At a meeting here today by
representatives of labor, indus-
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Tonopah, Nev., Sept. 25 (U.R)
Stopped by the bulky Tonopah
Army Air Base line, the Onl
versify of Nevada grlders took
to the air with "T" formation
passes to win their opener 20-0
yesterday.
and operations were back to nor
mal as the 1400 other workers
who were forced Into Idleness
because of the strike were able
to work again. The strike caused
a loss of production of 14,000
tons of steel, officials said.
Steel Workers Back
The biggest walkout, a three
day strike of 8000 workers at
the American Car and Foundry
Co., Berwick, Pa., was ended
when the United Steel Workers
(CIO) reached agreement with
officials on seniority regulations
in a vacatlon-wlth-pay plan.
At Detroit. 3000 workers on
the day shift at the Briggs
Manufacturing company plant
returned to work, ending a walk
out In protest against the dis
missal of 10 die setters A total
of 7250 workers had been on
strike at the Briggs plant. How
ever, 1168 workers at that fac
tory were to be laid ofi today
due to cutbacks In the produc
tion of B 17 Flving Fortresses.
At Cleveland, where a strike
of 400 trainmen has tied up 4600
other workers, officials of the
Republic Steel company s Cor
rigan M'-Kinncy plant estimat
ed that the walkout has cost the
production of another 4500 tons
of steel.
Mrs. Louise Stafford has re
turned home after visiting her
sister, Mrs. Jean Witter and fam
ily in Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim McDowell
and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Abbott
motored to Diamond Lake to
fish September 12. '
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Eldrldge of
Ashland and Mrs. Lura Leach
of South Dakota were dinner
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